Directors and Advisory Board

Institute Directors

Tom Cohen
IC3, Co-Founder & Director
Professor of English
University at Albany, SUNY

Henry Sussman
Ic3, Co-Founder & Director
Professor, Department of Comparative Literature
University at Buffalo, SUNY
Visiting Professor, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures
Yale University

Mary Valentis
IC3, Director
Associate Professor, Department of English
University at Albany, SUNY
518-442-4082 (office)
518 436-3806 (fax)

Advisory Board

Eduardo Cadava
Professor, Department of English,
Princeton University

Claire Colebrook
Professor, Department of English Literature
Edinburgh University

Werner Hamacher
Chair, Institut für Allegemeine and Vergleichende
Literaturwissenschaft, Johannes Wolfgang Goethe-Universität,
Frankfurt am Main

Carol Jacobs
Birgit Baxter Chair, Departments of Germanic Languages and Literatures and Comparative Literature,
Yale University

J. Hillis Miller
Professor Emeritus, Comparative Literature & English,
University of California, Irvine

Akira Mizuta Lippit
Professor of Comparative Literature, East Asian Languages and Cultures and Cinema-Television,
University of Southern California

Alberto Moreiras
Professor of Romance Languages and Studies,
University of Aberdeen

Avital Ronell
Professor, Departments of German and Comparative Literature,
NYU

Haun Saussy
Professor, Department of Comparative Literature,
Yale University

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Avalon Professor of Humanities, Departments of English and Comparative Literature,
Columbia University

Barbara Herrnstein Smith
Braxton Craven Professor of Comparative Literature and English; Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Science and Cultural Theory, Duke University; Distinguished Professor of English, Brown University

Bernard Stiegler
Director of the Department of Cultural Development at the Centre Georges-Pompidou, Paris

Samuel Weber
Avalon Professor of Humanities, Departments of German and Comparative Literature,
Northwestern University